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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Dolan, Paul - 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...

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The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus : The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

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Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being : The Case of Fukushima

Goebel, Jan - 2013

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well‐being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down...

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Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?

Jin, Lawrence - 2015

This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do not find much evidence that population health...

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Successful Scientific Replication and Extension of Levitt (2008) : Child Seats are Still No Safer than Seat Belts

Jones, Lauren Eden - 2014

Using US fatality data from 1975 to 2003, Levitt (2008) shows that child safety seats do not significantly reduce fatalities for children aged two to six as compared to standard seat belts. Although we were unable to gain access to the original programs and dataset used, we were able to...

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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata

Eibich, Peter - 2013

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...

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Mandated Sick Pay : Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects

Maclean, Catherine - 2020

welfare analysis. For a range of plausible parameter values, mandating sick pay increases welfare …

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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight : Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Dragone, Davide - 2015

This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...

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